Lizaveta's Riddle (Collection)

Five novellas, five men’s stories about love. A fleeing official, a businessman playboy, a student boxer, a husband forced to put up with a young wife’s intrigues, and a 60-year-old oligarch who has everything but no desire to live—these authors skillfully explore the motives behind their characters’ actions, and each of them searches for something of their own in women and understands love in their own way. In the novella “Lizavetina’s Mystery,” which gave the collection its name, the story of the main character confirms an old truth: behind a man’s success there is always a woman’s love.